Tag Archive: Rodney Frelinghuysen

Once upon a time, Rodney Frelinghuysen was so powerful nobody could touch him. In 2000, to underscore that, Michael Moore ran a 3-foot ficus tree against him. Within hours, Ficus for Congress campaigns sprouted up (as it were) across the…Read more

I have a lot of affection for Democratic candidates in CD11. I don’t really know Mikie Sherrill, but I’ve known a succession of principled people who softened the ground for her for years before anybody there knew her name. That…Read more

Hi, CBS – how are ya? Have you been firing copy editors? People, CBS News is out with a list of the ‘most interesting’ House races to watch. That’s cool. But then it’s not. While New Jersey is considered a blue…Read more

Eileen, who lives in Sparta, will be studying Russian at Georgetown U.. Mikie Sherrill was a Russian policy advisor when she was in the Navy. Promoted by Rosi. I’m an 18 year old rising Freshman at Georgetown University; part of the…Read more

Above, tweet yesterday from @SenatorMenendez. A Harvard University study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, is bringing a dose of reality to the Puerto Rico death toll after Hurricane Maria in September 2017. The official death toll? Just 64….Read more

“Money makes the world go around A mark, a yen, a buck or a pound Is all that makes the world go around That clinking, clanking sound… Can make the world go ’round.” Cabaret: Money … Money As…Read more

Thanks to Ann Rea for weighting in on this. Promoted by Rosi New Jersey is one of 5 US states without a paper trail. Eight states have a combination of paperless and paper trail voting machines. No private sector security…Read more

Gun violence in America continues to be a national disgrace. Other countries have learned how to minimize it. It’s way past time for the U. S. to do likewise. In the midst of 2018 elections the recalcitrant members of our…Read more

Donald Trump just released his infrastructure budget … and it’s both awful and unfair. It is up to us to tell Congress to reject his plan. It’s not only a privatization scheme as Paul Krugman suggests. It also leaves our…Read more